China'S Textile Industry Is Heading For A Moderate Growth Stage.

After 15 years of negotiations and waiting, China finally became officially in December 11, 2001.

Before joining the WTO, export quotas have always been a ravine for most Chinese textile enterprises.

In accordance with the agreement on textiles and clothing, from 1995 to the beginning of ten years, the quota restrictions on textiles and clothing have been abolished in four phases among WTO members, sharing free trade.

January 1, 2005 is the final stage.

Sun Huaibin, director of the China Textile Economic Research Center, believes that China can only truly integrate into the liberalization of textile and clothing trade only if it becomes a member of the WTO.

In 2002, China's textile industry was given a historic opportunity, and its total output value, profit and export three main economic indicators all reached a record high.

According to the World Trade Organization data, China's textile and garment exports accounted for about 16% of global exports in 2001, accounting for 32% of global exports in 2009 and 33% in 2010.

In the ten years after China's accession to the WTO, China's textile and clothing exports basically maintained an increase of two figures, and the total growth of textile and clothing nearly 3 times in ten years. The proportion of textile and clothing exports accounted for over 30% of the global market.

China is well deserved to become the world's largest exporter of textiles and clothing.

Statistics from the China Textile Industry Association show that in 2010, China's textile and clothing exports totaled 206 billion 500 million US dollars, an increase of 268.75% over 2000.

Experts from the China Textile Industry Association believe that China has become the world's largest textile exporter, mainly due to China's accession to the WTO. The European and American countries have abolished the quota restrictions on Chinese textile and clothing products year after year, which has fully released the ability of China's textile and clothing production.

However, as China's WTO entry brings opportunities to China's textile and clothing exports, foreign trade protectionism is also becoming increasingly grim.

In 2005, China's textile industry maintained a rapid growth in the first year of the "post quota era", and the index increased to a new high. China's textile and clothing exports grew by 21%, of which 71% of the total exports to the United States accounted for 16% of the total textile and clothing exports in that year.

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In the next year after the abolition of quotas, trade liberalization has led to overwhelming anti-dumping investigations and technical barriers to trade.

Europe and the United States have signed a memorandum of understanding on textile and apparel between China and Europe, with the rise of China's textile and apparel exports to Europe and the United States, and continue to impose restrictions.

In addition, many developing countries such as Turkey, Brazil, Peru, Columbia and South Africa have joined forces to restrict China's textile exports with various trade remedy measures.

Since then, various anti-dumping investigations against China's textile and garment exports have been heard.

Authoritative statistics show that although China's exports account for less than 10% of the world's exports, China has the highest proportion of anti-dumping and countervailing cases, accounting for 1/3 and 1/2 of the world's total respectively.

In recent years, the trade protection of China's textile and clothing exports has been normalized in various countries and regions, which makes Chinese textile and garment exports face unprecedented pressure.

So far, China's textile exports have entered a moderate growth stage after the rapid growth period of quota liberalization.

The creativity and export quality of China's textile industry have been greatly improved, and the export pattern dominated by quantity growth has been reversed at the same time.

During the "11th Five-Year" period, the contribution rate of exports to the textile industry's export growth accounted for 45%, while the contribution rate of value growth accounted for 56%.

From 2008 to 2010, despite the decline in the number of garment exports in China, the value of exports increased by 25%.

With the rising cost of labor, raw materials and energy in China and the uncertain factors of foreign trade, the era of "low cost and high growth" of Chinese textile and garment industry has become the past.

At present, the export of China's textile and clothing has reached its peak in scale, and the turning point has begun to appear. In the future, the whole industry will face the choice of life and death in terms of structural adjustment, pformation and upgrading.

Du Yuzhou, President of the China Textile Industry Association, emphasized that it is necessary to improve the contribution rate of science and technology and the contribution rate of the brand to digest all kinds of unfavorable factors. In the future, the textile industry should take innovation as the driving force and seize the important strategic opportunities of the textile industry from strong to strong.

Only in this way can China become a powerful exporter from the world's largest exporter of textile and clothing.